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“It's not what you look at that matters, it's what you see.”
~ Henry David Thoreau
A little green, a little blue. A lot o' Happy Monday Blues!
Photo taken May 15, 2009.
**Although the thought is appreciated, please no graphic awards or invites**
Continuing with my Positive Flags of the Nations
project.
Motherhood is the greatest thing and the hardest thing.
Ricki Lake
Motherhood changes everything.
Adriana Trigiani
For when a child is born the mother also is born again.
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“I can’t believe what God has done
He took the heat out of the Sun
And now it seems
The world is growing colder
Before the pleasure and the pain
Wishing your life away
No more sinister than Sane
Briefing your life away
Between the Flickr and the Fame
No one can explain
Baby Blue is Born Again... “
Words from the Emiliana Torrini song~ “Baby Blue”
(^if these links don’t work in your country, google the artist and title ^)
From one photo, overlaid with edited versions and then Digitally painted by hand. Photos, textures and digital painted by moi, Tom.
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1 Thess 5:16-18 TLB
Always be joyful. Never stop praying. Be thankful in all circumstances, for this is God’s will for you who belong to Christ Jesus.
I am so thankful for another year and so much more. Fifteen years ago, a wretch like me was saved by grace and mercy and born again into a new creation. A girl who loves the LORD with all her heart. Who was forgiven much ... more than you can imagine. Who has been blessed and highly favored to have walked with Him all this time.
In the first comment you'll see one of my very first Scripture photos, which happens to be the same verse I was moved to use today.
Thank You, Jesus.
These are born-again Christians doing mission work on a busy Saturday afternoon in London's prime shopping area. I have no idea whether they are 'successful' in this regard or not. However, I would like to draw your attention to the fact that they promise you to be born again, not that you will avoid carrying your cross. My guess is that they do know one or two things about pain.
Fuji X100F.
Each morning we are born again.
What we do today is what matters most.
Buddah
Every sunrise gives you a new beginning and a new ending. Let this morning be a new beginning to a better relationship and a new ending to the bad memories. Its an opportunity to enjoy life, breathe freely, think and love. Be grateful for this beautiful day.
Norton Juster
We need to be reminded sometimes that a sunrise last but a few minutes. But its beauty can burn in our hearts eternally.
R.A. Salvatore
There's a sunrise and a sunset every single day, and they're absolutely free. Don't miss so many of them.
Jo Walton
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Ms McCormick made an appearance at the Baltimore BookFest promoting her autobiography. In her book she claims to have had a religious epiphany:
"McCormick was walking with friends down Westwood Boulevard, '…when suddenly and without warning (McCormick) was thrown to the ground. Literally thrown…a force pushed from behind…and two hands reaching down from the sky toward (McCormick’s). It was Jesus.'.
Ms McCormick was so inspired by her epiphany that she became a Born Again Christian.
I think that my portrait of her does a better job of portraying someone with a sense of inner strength allegedly stemming from their religious views than does most other of the images that I've seen of her that are posted to flickr or are available elsewhere on line.
We live in an era of nihilism. It has become so normal that we are blind to it. A nihilistic society has high divorce rates and rampant fatherlessness. A nihilistic society is promiscuous with high numbers of sexually transmitted diseases. A nihilistic society has drug and crime epidemics. A nihilistic society lacks morals and common sense.
Abortion, the killing of one’s offspring, is nihilistic. Calling a human fetus a parasite is nihilistic. Why would one lie and call a fetus a parasite? It is because nihilism is incompatible with the truth. The further a society goes into nihilism the more it despises the truth. Nihilists love to preach their gospel of subjectivism. Nihilists declare that there are more than two genders. Nihilists support euthanasia. With nihilism, life has no value. Nihilists claim that people are nothing but sacks of hormones. Without a doubt, nihilism degrades and dehumanizes people. The climate change (net-zero) agenda is nihilistic (anti-human). I have read LGBTQ literature, which states that heterosexuality must be abolished. This too is a form of nihilism. Supporting mass migration, as empires do in decline, is nihilistic. Indeed, supporting the demise of your children’s future is nihilistic. Feminism, with its hatred of men, is nihilistic. Woke-Marxism, with its oppressed versus oppressor, is nihilistic. Socialism ends in nihilism, just look at the Soviets and Nazis. Artificial intelligence is also nihilistic, the same with transhumanism.
Mao wanted to destroy the Four Olds: Olds Ideas, Old Customs, Old Culture, and Old Habits. Mao needed New Ideas, New Customs, New Culture, and New Habits to replace the Old ones. The old order must be destroyed and replaced by the new order. Violence is part of the nihilist revolution. Nihilism, the worship of nothingness, in its purest form will produce destruction. In the end, the madness of nihilism will lead to either world conquest or utter ruin.
“We will not capitulate – no, never! We may be destroyed, but if we are, we shall drag a world with us – a world in flames.” – Adolf Hitler
Nietzsche declared that God was dead, because modern man had lost their faith in God. The foundations of our society are based on Christianity. If we tear down our foundations, then our whole society will come crashing down. This would destroy the Old Ideas, Old Customs, Old Culture, and Old Habits. Our values and traditions would be gone. We would destroy our measuring stick of right and wrong, truth and lie. Without our foundations, we will lose our house.
The West has rejected God and embraced secular humanism. The fruits of this will end in total nihilism. In rejecting God, they reject not only salvation but the truth. Since they reject the truth, they will follow error to its logical end—destruction. Nihilists are at war with the truth, at war with God. They, like Nietzsche, want to murder God. They want to be like Nietzsche’s Superman. They want to replace God and be their own god. They want to live by their own truth. In their nihilistic gospel of nothingness, they want to turn the world into nothingness. God created the universe from nothing. Therefore, they want to turn everything into nothing and create their own world. They do not want the universe to revolve around God. They want the universe to revolve around themselves. Their nihilistic world of tyranny will be cold; it will be efficiently run by machines and technology. They are constructing an artificial (digital) world. Their utopian world will be so all-encompassing that no one will be able to escape. Moreover, they want to transform a human into a transhuman—Nietzsche’s Superman.
With each technological advance, man becomes both stronger and weaker. Every power gained is also a power that can be used against man as well. Every victory won, means man is that much closer to being the servant of the leader in charge. Those who reject Christ will serve the antichrist. They will become born again in the antichrist, a spiritual (transhuman) rebirth. 666: take the Mark of the Beast! The merging of man and technology will mean the abolition of man. Transhumanists want to merge man and machine to create a new being. They want to make a being through their technology, a being made in their own image. They want to end humanity as we know it. They are planning the extinction of man!
Nihilism is the inversion of Christianity. In the gospel of nihilism, the antichrist is Christ, and God the Father is the dragon (the devil). Yet those who reject the Mark and choose Christ will live. The nihilists, however, will spend eternity living in the nihilism of hell with their father the devil.
John 10:10 “The thief comes only to steal, kill, and destroy. I (Jesus) have come so that they may have life, and may have it abundantly.”
A friend of mine since childhood, He is a man of God and he has helped so many families and children by opening a food pantry and a homeless shelter for men, as well as a soup kitchen where you can get a hot meal if you need one. Pastor Tom has many talents and he uses them for the Glory of God. I am honored to call this man a friend.
There are many resemblances between my old, freckled skin and his. The detail of this shot is not great but it is possible to discern the remnants of a recent sloughing at the larva's front left. The earlier leg skin is visible as a transparent shape. Perhaps if I last a little longer I might slough off my old surface and emerge in the bloom of youth. We can but hope.
Photograph published in February 2023 in Buzzflash {link below}
buzzflash.com/articles/bill-berkowitz-for-buzzflash-trump...
The Spirit is like the wind. Had Jesus stopped with this comment, Nicodemus would have had plenty to ponder. Yet Jesus went on to stretch the imagination of Nick and Max and all people who have tried to quarry the jewels that follow.
“So it is with everyone who is born of the Spirit” (John 3:8 ESV). That which is born of a vegetable is a vegetable. That which is born of a dog is a dog. And that which is born of the Spirit is Spirit. That is to say, we have his wind, his unseen power, within us. We host the mystery and majesty of God.
Stop and think about something you struggle to do. Forgiving an enemy? Solving a problem? Breaking a habit? You can’t do it? The Spirit can. You have the force of heaven’s wind within you.
Help Is Here
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Celebrating the eleven people that got baptised this day in the river.
Auburn Riverside Retreat and Campground.
Auburn, Ontario
Canada.
Photograph published on August 12, 2022 { link below }
buzzflash.com/articles/bill-berkowitz-for-buzzflash-despi...
Photograph also published on October 19 2022 { link below}
churchandstate.org.uk/2022/10/christian-nationalism-is-li...
¨Jesus answered and said to him, "Truly, truly, I say to you, unless one is born again he cannot see the kingdom of God..”
John 3
In pic : My niece Anna
Praise Song "For Whom Man Should Live
"
For Whom Man Should Live
I
Wasn’t clear for whom man should live. Now I’ve got the answer for it.
I used to live just for myself, seeking only status and fame.
Prayer to God full of fine words, yet holding to my own way in real life.
Faith based upon future and fate, I have no truth or reality.
Rituals and rules, confining my faith; I was left with nothing but emptiness.
Failing to live as a human, I don’t deserve God’s love for me.
II
My heart has been awakened now, telling me I should repay God’s love.
I hate myself for I had no conscience, disobeying God and breaking His heart.
Never have I cared for God’s heart; never was I concerned about His words.
Without conscience, having no sense, how can I be listed as man?
God's judgment makes me see, I was deeply corrupted by Satan.
Evil, this world, full of traps; truth is what a believer should choose.
O dear God, You love me so, doing all You can to make me saved.
What You’ve done for me, I’ll keep in mind! I will never ever forget.
Care for God’s heart, that’s all my will. I am determined to pursue the truth.
Consuming myself to spend for God, offering myself to repay His love,
offering myself to repay His love.
from Follow the Lamb and Sing New Songs
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4 We were therefore buried with him through baptism into death in order that, just as Christ was raised from the dead through the glory of the Father, we too may live a new life.
Auburn Riverside Retreat & Campground.
Auburn, Ontario
Canada
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A couple telling their stories of why they are no longer religious ,but have decided to follow Jesus Christ instead and be baptised this day in the river.
Auburn River Retreat & Campground.
Auburn, Ontario
Canada
Had a chance to visit with an old friend Sunday morning prior to heading to the family for the holiday. After grabbing several snacks (i.e. fish), this Great White Egret finds a good perch to do some spring cleaning, oh I mean, preening! Enjoy!
Photograph published May, 9 2022 { link below }
churchandstate.org.uk/2022/09/jesus-endless-war-and-the-r...
Chief Renard counts Jeronimo as one of his ancestors. He is based in his tribal land in New-Mexico. After years of abuse inflicted upon him and his family by the US federal government and its education apparatus, he developed a drinking problem.
He discovered Jesus thirty three years ago, when he was 21 years-old, and became a born-again Christian. In 1987, he was preaching in Romania where he denounced a brutal dictatorship. Renard travels all over the world to preach the gospel of his Lord Jesus with Native American wisdom and flair.